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Tuesday, 5 April 2016

TRAVEL TUESDAY #21 - LONDON

“The hardest
thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.” - David RussellWelcome to the Travel Tuesday meme! Join me every Tuesday and showcase your creativity in photography, painting and drawing, music, poetry, creative writing or a plain old natter about Travel!There is only one simple rule: Link your own creative work about some aspect of travel and share it with the rest of us! Please use this meme for your creative endeavours only.Do not use this meme to advertise your products or services as any links or comments by advertisers will be removed immediately.

The Tower Bridge
(built 1886–1894) is a combined bascule and suspension bridge in London. The
bridge crosses the River Thames close to the Tower of London and has become an
iconic symbol of London. Tower Bridge is one of five London bridges now owned
and maintained by the Bridge House Estates, a charitable trust overseen by the
City of London Corporation. It is the only one of the Trust’s bridges not to
connect the City of London directly to the Southwark bank, as its northern landfall
is in the Tower Hamlets.The bridge
consists of two bridge towers tied together at the upper level by two
horizontal walkways, designed to withstand the horizontal tension forces
exerted by the suspended sections of the bridge on the landward sides of the
towers. The vertical components of the forces in the suspended sections and the
vertical reactions of the two walkways are carried by the two robust towers. The
bascule pivots and operating machinery are housed in the base of each tower.The bridge deck is freely accessible
to both vehicles and pedestrians, whereas the bridge’s twin towers, high-level
walkways and Victorian engine rooms form part of the Tower Bridge Exhibition,
for which an admission charge is made. The nearest London Underground tube
stations are Tower Hill on the Circle and District lines, London Bridge on the
Jubilee and Northern lines and Bermondsey on the Jubilee line, and the nearest
Docklands Light Railway station is Tower Gateway. The nearest National Rail
stations are at Fenchurch Street and London Bridge.This post is part of the Our World Tuesday meme,

and also part of the Wordless Wednesday meme.Add your own travel posts using the Linky tool below, and don't forget to be nice and leave a comment and link back to this post from your own post!

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